Question

Please help! Show me how to answer this.Please!

Gino designed a garden for his rectangular backyard. the design he drew on paper is 10in. long. the length of his backyard is 50 ft. of his drawing is to scale and is 9in. wide, how many ft wide is his backyard? write a proportion using words. then, use the proportion to calculate the yard width.

Answer 1

can you sketch it?

Answer 2

anyway you can explain it to me would be fine

Answer 3

ok...fisrt you would want to find the ratio he used to draw
if on paper it was 10in and in real it was 50ft..what is the ratio..can you find that?

Answer 4

@magy33

Answer 5

would it be 1 to 5??? irdk.

Answer 6

first change the feet to inches

Answer 7

what will you get

Answer 8

1foot=12inches

Answer 9

??? im so confused

Answer 10

ok...give me a minute

Answer 11

can you do this?

Answer 12

600 inches? isn't that numeral to large?

Answer 13

lol..its correct though...now find the ratio

Answer 14

how would i set it up?

Answer 15

how do you find the ratio??? im so lost.

Answer 16

ok...like this
\[10:600\]
simplify

Answer 17

so the ratio is 60. what do I do with that?

Answer 18

and the 600in????

Answer 19

the ratio is \[1:60\].. do you get what i mean?

Answer 20

i have simplified by dividing by 10

Answer 21

ok so now that we have the ratio , how do we set up the proprtion? would it be 12/20 x 60/x?